Main Street America’s guide (written by BALLE Fellow Ellen Shepard) provides a practical framework for understanding how to launch or strengthen your community engagement efforts, and includes actionable tools to put to use in your own community.

Brendan Martin (The Working World) shares how exploring different models of ownership can have ripple effects across economies and bring humanity into businesses. Worker cooperatives and other models of shared…

In our 17 years working with local economy leaders across the U.S. and Canada, we have collectively identified patterns in the kinds of relationships crucial to their success. Building healthy, equitable…